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American romances : essays / by Rebecca Brown.
LIBRA PS3552.R6973 A44 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Rebecca, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 162 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : City Lights, [2009]
- Summary:
- The impulse to tell our worst to a bunch of strangers has been fueling American self-hood for 300 years: there's a direct line from the Puritan confession narrative to today's lurid, inescapable exhibitionism. But whose stories are we telling? -- This collection of mordant, poignant, and playful essays shows Rebecca Brown at the height of her imaginative and intuitive powers. A wry, incisive social and literary critique is couched in a gonzo mix of pop culture, autobiography, fiction, literary history, misremembered movie plots, and fantasy that plays with the notion of what it is to be "American."
- Contents:
- Hawthorne
- A child of her time
- The priests
- God without words
- Extreme reading
- Invisible
- My western
- Young Goodman Brown : a gloss.
- ISBN:
- 9780872864986
- 0872864987
- OCLC:
- 244177204
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